mb_strlen
Get string length
Description
mixed mb_strlen
( string $str
[, string $encoding = mb_internal_encoding()
] )
Parameters
-
str
-
The string being checked for length.
-
encoding
-
The encoding
parameter is the character encoding. If it is omitted, the internal character
encoding value will be used.
Return Values
Returns the number of characters in
string str having character encoding
encoding. A multi-byte character is
counted as 1.
Returns FALSE if the given encoding is invalid.
WarningThis function may
return Boolean FALSE, but may also return a non-Boolean value which
evaluates to FALSE. Please read the section on Booleans for more
information. Use the ===
operator for testing the return value of this
function.
See Also
- mb_internal_encoding
- grapheme_strlen
- iconv_strlen
- strlen